Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 4 secondary schools. Pye Green Academy is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS12 4PS
Penkridge North & Acton Trussell · South Staffordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Cannock
- Local authority
- South Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge
- Postcode district
- WS12
- Postcode sector
- WS12 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS12 4PS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS12
- Postcode sector
- WS12 4
- Latitude
- 52.735231
- Longitude
- -2.026477
- British National Grid easting
- 398,309
- British National Grid northing
- 315,287
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- South Staffordshire · E07000196
- Electoral ward
- Penkridge North & Acton Trussell · E05015067
- Parish or community
- E04008980
- Westminster constituency
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge · E14001523
- Output area
- E00151096
- Lower layer super output area
- South Staffordshire 001B · E01029656
- Middle layer super output area
- South Staffordshire 001 · E02006174
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore WS12
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Cottage, Broadhurst Green, Hednesford, Cannock, WS12 4PS | 27 July 2018 | £310,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 4
- 2.1 km
Pye Green Academy
Academy converter
- 2.5 km
Littleton Green Community School
Academy converter
- 2.7 km
Staffordshire University Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 124
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 77
- Anti social behaviour 15
- Other theft 8
- Vehicle crime 7
- Criminal damage and arson 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- WS12 4 residents
- 17,404
2 female, 2 male
Age bands in WS12 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.5%
3,084 residents
1,705 residents
4,881 residents
4,700 residents
2,839 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WS12 4 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
8
within 5 km straight-line
CHADSMOOR MEDICAL PRACTICE
45 PRINCESS STREET, CHADSMOOR, CANNOCK, WS11 5JT
ODS code M83637
3.0 km
DR MANICKAM & PARTNER
HEDNESFORD VALLEY HEALTH CENTRE, STATION ROAD, HEDNESFORD, CANNOCK, WS12 4DJ
ODS code M83109
3.2 km
HEDNESFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEDNESFORD VALLEY HEALTH CENTRE, STATION ROAD, HEDNESFORD, CANNOCK, WS12 4DJ
ODS code M83033
3.2 km
MOSS STREET SURGERY
23 MOSS STREET, CHADSMOOR, CANNOCK, WS11 6DE
ODS code M83139
3.7 km
CANNOCK PRACTICES NETWORK SURGERY
C/O GP SUITE LEVEL 2, CANNOCK CHASE HOSPITAL, BRUNSWICK ROAD, CANNOCK, WS11 5XY
ODS code Y05125
4.7 km
DR I RASIB & PARTNERS
BRUNSWICK ROAD, CANNOCK, WS11 5XY
ODS code M83616
4.7 km
RED LION SURGERY
CANNOCK CHASE HOSPITAL, BRUNSWICK ROAD, CANNOCK, WS11 5XY
ODS code M83130
4.7 km
RAWNSLEY SURGERY
RAWNSLEY ROAD, CANNOCK, WS12 1JF
ODS code M83719
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Broadhurst Green
BCT · Pye Green
- 0.8 miles
Broadhurst Close
BCT · Pye Green
- 0.8 miles
Broadhurst Close
BCT · Pye Green
- 0.8 miles
Broadhurst Green
BCT · Pye Green
- 0.9 miles
Tudor Road
BCT · Pye Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Staffordshire 001B, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,735 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
124 published events cover 12 months, averaging 10.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 77 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.